Author Description

Excerpt from A History of the Reigns of Augustus and Tiberius 53. Moreover, every cause which had contributed to the assertion of the autocracy of a Sulla or a Caesar now acted with increased force. That government by the Senate which had conducted Rome gloriously to the close of the Macedonian and Carthaginian wars had sunk by its own momentum into an oligarchic system of jobbery and corruption, and from thence into a system not less corru t and still more incapable owing to the blow dealt it byt e Gracchi. Sulla's efi'orts at a restoration had owed their only continuance to his presence. After his decease the Senate threw itself desperately upon the mercy of one leader after another, reckless of the fact that those leaders, whom it entrusted with unconstitutional powers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.